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[Agonum]

I read "orange" and what did you write?

Apelsin is the fruit that in English is named ‘orange,’ which in turn gave name to the colour. As for ‘apelsin,’ it literally means ‘apple from China.’

 

[Agonum]

How much you know about everything! It never ceases to amaze me. I mean it.

I concur!

 

[zinniabooklover]

Thank you for sharing what you know
I admire this because I know about myself that this is not my forte))))

So I decided to refresh my memory regarding what I could remember about the Zone System. I got this from Wiki:

"The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.[1] Adams described the Zone System as "[...] not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry, worked out by Fred Archer and myself at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, around 1939–40."[2]

The technique is based on the late 19th-century sensitometry studies of Hurter and Driffield. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography."

It was hilarious. I got up to the bit about '... the principles of sensitometry ..." and had 16 nervous breakdowns ("here comes your 19th nervous breakdown" - the Rolling Stones). I don't know what sensitometry is and I don't want to know! I'm not even doing a very good job of pronouncing the damn word, lol.

Anyway, that's me and my non-science brain!

 

[hope]

Yes, exactly. It’s an interesting event! I’m sure it’s hard to grasp the scale of it from photos alone. Have you been there?

I wasn't there. I didn't even think of going there)))) it turns out there are air tours to the site of the fall.

 

[Agonum]

Also Ansel?

 

[zinniabooklover]

Also Ansel?

Yes. All of the photos in that little batch are by him.

 

[hope]

So I decided to refresh my memory regarding what I could remember about the Zone System. I got this from Wiki:

"The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.[1] Adams described the Zone System as "[...] not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry, worked out by Fred Archer and myself at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, around 1939–40."[2]

The technique is based on the late 19th-century sensitometry studies of Hurter and Driffield. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography."

It was hilarious. I got up to the bit about '... the principles of sensitometry ..." and had 16 nervous breakdowns ("here comes your 19th nervous breakdown" - the Rolling Stones). I don't know what sensitometry is and I don't want to know! I'm not even doing a very good job of pronouncing the damn word, lol.

Anyway, that's me and my non-science brain!

 

[hope]

= ??? The only difference is that one of them have eyebrows?

I agree with the comment about eyebrows

 

[zinniabooklover]

Really old (2013) review of an Ansel Adams photo exhibition.

"However, there is one important thing to note about every single photograph in the exhibition: all of them were manipulated. When printing, he would deliberately alter the exposure times of various sections of a photograph, accentuating the drama of the picture. With this, he likened a photographic negative to a composer’s score, while the performance is the photographer/printer’s interpretation and reaction in the darkroom. He is able to change how the negative is exposed, just like a composer is able to make different performances based on the same score."

Ansel Adams and his Love for Water

Personally I’ve never really been much of a fan of photography exhibitions, especially those focusing on landscapes – quite ironic, since I usually take pictures of landscapes – but the National Ma…

nigelip.com

 

[hope]

Yes, I remember you did this before. The first one is the hardest one for me to understand. Is it a nervous laugh?

Exactly! don't I like that succinct explanation.

 

[Agonum]

Megaloblatta longipennis

 

[Agonum]

Vulpes lagopus (arctic fox/Polarfuchs/fjällräv)

 

[Agonum]

Ovibos moschatus (muskox/Moschusochse/Овцебык (Ovtsebyk)/myskoxe)

 

[zinniabooklover]

Shetland ponies

 

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[Agonum]

Canis lupus lupus (wolf/Wolf/волкот/varg)

 

[zinniabooklover]

Orcas in the waters around Shetland, Scotland

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

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[Agonum]

Yes. All of the photos in that little batch are by him.

Wow, I really love that one with the tree reflecting in the water.

 

[zinniabooklover]

A red-necked phalarope: between 70% and 90% of the UK breeding population is found in Shetland.

This photo shows the full breeding plumage.

 

[zinniabooklover]

Wow, I really love that one with the tree reflecting in the water.

I was trying to find out where that one was taken but didn't get very far. I might have another go. It is beautiful, isn't it? So atmospheric.

 

[hope]

They roll around in the snow too, I didn't realize they did that)))))

 

[zinniabooklover]

The Aurora Borealis seen from Shetland where the Northern Lights are known locally as Mirrie Dancers

 

[zinniabooklover]

Puffin photo taken at Sumburgh Head, Shetland

 

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[zinniabooklover]

Fulmar in flight, Unst, Shetland